Calasaya (Batallas)
| Calasaya | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 521 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| height | 3925 m | ||
| Post Code | 02-1203-0600-1001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 16 ° 20 ′ S , 68 ° 31 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | La Paz | ||
| province | Los Andes Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Batallas |
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Calasaya (also: Calazaya ) is a town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
Calasaya is the central place of the canton Villa Remedios de Calasaya in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Batallas in the province of Los Andes and is located at an altitude of 3925 m , between the Río Kamani and the Río Huancarani, eight kilometers northwest of Calasaya near Cutusuma in the lake Titicaca lead.
geography
Calasaya lies on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the year.
The annual average temperature of the region is 9 ° C, the average monthly values fluctuate only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see Batalla's climate diagram). The annual precipitation is around 600 mm, the monthly precipitation is between under 15 mm in the months June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.
Transport network
Calasaya is 66 kilometers northwest of La Paz , the capital of the department.
From La Paz, the asphalt road Ruta 2 leads west to El Alto and further north-west via Vilaque and Palcoco to Batallas . From here a dirt road branches off in a southerly direction, which leads via Calasaya to Pucarani .
population
The population of the village has decreased slightly over the past decade:
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | no detailed data | census |
| 2001 | 563 | census |
| 2012 | 521 | census |
Due to the historical population development, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .
Individual evidence
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001 ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.2 MB)
Web links
- Batallas region - topographic map 1: 100,000 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
- Relief map of the La Paz region 1: 250,000 (PDF; 11.07 MB)
- Municipio Batallas - General Maps No. 21203
- Municipio Batallas - detailed map and population data (PDF; 497 kB) ( Spanish )
- Departamento La Paz - social data of the municipalities (PDF; 11.63 MB) ( Spanish )